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Yoon Not to Consider Gender Quotas, Regional Distribution in Personnel Appointments

SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol has decided to make personnel appointments based fully on merit without considering quotas for women and regional distribution, officials said Sunday, as he prepares to announce his staff for the presidential transition committee. “President-elect Yoon will never make appointments for show,” an aide said. The official [...]

Korea to Put Premium on Meritocracy in Public Sector’s Wage System

SEJONG, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s finance ministry said Sunday it will streamline the country’s public sector by eliminating overlapping operations and expand merit-based payment to encourage healthy competition. The measures are part of the Park Geun-hye administration’s second-phase normalization plan for the public sector. Policymakers take credit for reducing debts by 24.4 [...]